Often, those new to property management don’t know which questions should be asked of potential Property Managers. These important questions below will help you understand and gauge if a company is worth working with.

Often, those new to property management don’t know which questions should be asked of potential Property Managers. These important questions below will help you understand and gauge if a company is worth working with.

WILL YOU SHOW MY PROPERTY TO PROSPECTIVE TENANTS WHEN ITS CONVENIENT FOR THEM, OR DO YOU JUST DO IT AROUND YOUR SCHEDULE? I’VE HEARD THAT PEOPLE SEARCHING FOR RENTALS OFTEN HAVE A HARD TIME SCHEDULING SHOWINGS WHEN ITS CONVENIENT FOR THEM.

You have heard correct. Most Property Managers force prospective tenants to schedule viewings around their (the Property Manager’s) schedule and not when its convenient for the prospective tenant. If your property is not conveniently located to the Property Manager, it may be a while before they schedule a viewing at it. After work or weekends? Forget it! This is why your home will likely sit vacant for a while. Not for lack of interest, but for lack of viewings!!! If no one is looking at your property, because they aren’t able, because your Property Manager won’t show it, then no one is renting and you’re losing money!

Professional Rental Operations™ Approach: We offer prospective tenants to view the vacant property around their schedule, day, night, weekend, holiday – whenever is convenient for them! Once the unit is vacant, we deploy our state of the art lock box viewing system which allows pre-qualified tenants to view the home on their time. Don’t worry, we aren’t just giving anyone access to the property at will. They must pre-qualify and then are given a one time code that expires at a certain time. We know who is in your property and when they are in your property. This is how we are able to rent property faster and why we can offer our 21 day leasing guarantee!

DO YOU PROVIDE 24 HOURS A DAY MAINTENANCE?

Other Property Managers only offer maintenance service during business hours. This is fine most of the time, but not when your furnace dies at 11:00 pm Friday night in January. Lack of attention to this leaves your tenants in the cold (literally), risks damage to your property by pipes freezing and bursting etc.

Professional Rental Operations™ Approach: During normal business hours, of course, tenants can reach us to report maintenance issues, including emergent ones. However, our difference is that we offer an after hours emergency line for tenants to report emergency issues, such as no heat, leaking pipes etc. Weekends, holidays, what are those? We ensure your property is looked after all the time, not just when its convenient for us!

HOW WILL MY PROPERTY BE MARKETED?

Other Property Managers use a variety of marketing methods – some good, some not so good, others bad. There are many Property Management companies that have perfected the art of photography. But not many give you the best possible advertisement, because it just takes too darn long!

Professional Rental Operations™ Approach: We market EVERY vacant unit using our 7 Step approach! You can read the full breakdown on page called “Marketing”, hover over why choose us above and click Marketing or, click the word “marketing” to open in a new window (see, saving you time and energy already!) We include walk through videos of your property, free of charge (if other Property Managers offer this service, they usually charge extra). We have the ability to produce 3D virtual tours and we offer Real Estate Agents commissions to show your property to their clients. This is unique in the fact that other professionals in the area are now vested in your property. When you hire us, there is a chance you will have an entire network of real estate agents ready to go to work for you! This is another reason we are renting faster and able to offer our 21 day leasing guarantee!

WHEN WILL I GET MY MONEY?

Some Property Management companies take their sweet time getting YOUR money to YOU. We have heard of some companies taking over a MONTH to disburse the funds. CRAZZZZZZY!

Professional Rental Operations™ Approach: Like JG Wentworth made famous, its your money, use it when…We will leave that there because we can’t afford a copyright infringement. Our owner disbursements are batch processed each month, on the month the funds are received, anywhere between the 10th and the 25th of the month. This depends on which management plan you are on, when rent is received etc. The point is, we get you your funds quickly because they should be in your account, not ours…

CAN PROSPECTIVE TENANTS APPLY ONLINE AND PAY THEIR RENT ONLINE?

Its 2021 (or later when you’re reading this)…Lets get with the times shall we? A surprising number of Property Managers don’t accept payment online, don’t have online applications etc. This means that prospective tenants need to get a paper application, write with a black or blue pen (holy moly wrist cramp), bring it back to the office or scan it in and then wait for the Property Manager to review it. This is a hassle and most prospective tenants don’t want that hassle!

Professional Rental Operations™ Approach: We use cutting edge tech. Tenants and prospective tenants can essentially do the entire leasing process on their couch using their computer, smart phone, tablet, Smart TV or their kids Nintendo Switch XXLXV75TANGO 3D (speaking of 3D, we offer 3D virtual tours so they can immerse themselves in your property from the comfort of their living room…We don’t have 2 way video yet to watch them run into their walls and couches though). The point is, from viewing the ad, applying to lease signing, we have the tech to do this all online. Once they are tenants, they can pay their rent online, submit non-emergent maintenance requests online, renew their lease online and so much more!

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